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Art_from_Ark

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5. My guess is bank loans and/or payday loan companies

Reply to Bonobo (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 30, 2015, 03:06 AM

Jan 2015

I saw an ad from a local bank recently offering new car loans at 1.5% interest, so that might entice some people to try to keep up with the Tanakas. Of course, payday loan company ads are everywhere, and I would guess that those companies are raking it in (although they apparently recently lost a class-action suit for usury and have to pay back some of the money they overcharged).

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